Seat for barbers&#39; chairs



May 1927' RLII-IYIIDORN ETAL Y Q 4 SEAT FOR BARBERS CHAIRS Filed Feb e.1926 I Mentor fifydarm REX HYDQRN AND DA V Application filed February oi .7

The child section is shiftable from the po- K M Our invention provisionof, a barber convertible from an adu fires;

(r a b VID FoRsY rH, or nonnnns FERRY, IDAH OQQ A SEAT on BARBERSCHAIRS.

has to do with barber's chairs;and it has for, its general object thev schair seat readily lt seat to a child seat 5 and vice versa, and thiswithout the seat beand . ted lines in Figure 1 ing in any degreeuncomfortable when it is connected atfi to the section 'lwhen vnot inuseto benested inthe U-shaped recess 8. provided in the; bottom of thesecarranged for the use of Other objects an adult in the chair.

and practical advantages of the invention will be fully understood fromthe sameare readin drawings, accompanyin of this specification, inFigure 1 IS a view in g and formingpart which side elevation show ing abarbers chair and also showing our novel seat as chalr, the

properly positioned inv the seat being shown in full lines as adaptedforthe use of a child'and in dotted lines as adapted for the Figurepartly in section of the use of an adult;

2 is a view in front elevation and seat per se; the seat being adjustedto be used by a child. I

Figure 3 is a view partly in side elevation Figure 4 is a View partly insection of the seat per se. 7

on a reduced scale showingthe seat in inverted plan.

Simllarf numerals of corresponding parts in the drawings.

reference designate all of the views of The barbers chair shown inFigure l is provided with a bottom 1, aback 2 and side arms, 3, andis'otherwise of the ordinary well known construction or of any otherconstruction compatible with the functioningof our novel seat.

Our invention contemplates the provision of a seat applicable to anybarbers chair and adapted to be usedon the bottom of the chair and inconjunction with the chair back; a major portion 5.

and our novel sea portion or body 4, and

Each section 4 and 5v is adet is characterized by a child seat uatelcushioned s rin s such as 6 entery 7 b 111g, by preference, into thecushioning of the sections,

and the sections. being formed,

within the purview of our-invention, of any materials appropriate t 0their purpose.

In accordance with our invention the rear end of the child section5 andthe forward end of the adult section 4 are adapted to fit closelyagainst each other as shown by dotand by full lines in Figure 4 so thatthe two sections 4 and 5 will constitute an adults seat of adequate areaand otherwise adapted to render an adult comfortable while occupying thechair.

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sition shown by full lines in Figure l to the position shown by dottedlines in said figure and vice versa, and in accordance withour inventiontion5' as best shown in Figure 4.. Itwill be understood, however, thatin v leg 6, the same is extended from the section 5 and is superposed onthe rear portion of' the section 4 as appears in Figure 1.

Sidelinks 9 are pivotally connectedto the sides of th-esections 4' and5, and manifestly said side links9 lend themselvesto the de- 7 seatvsection 5 scribed shifting of the child and also serve when the section5 is in the the section 5 is equipped with a, leg 6, preferablyof bailforin and hingedlyi 5, and adapted 1 the use of the I I position shownby full lines in Figure 1, to support the forward portion of the section5, the rear position indicated, being ported by the leg 6 and by thebearing'of the section 5 against the chair back 2. 5

portion of the section 5 in the adequatelysup:

' When the section 5 is in the lower posie It will be apparent from theforegoing that notwithstanding its practical advantages as pointed outin the foregoing, our

novel seat-is simple and inexpensive in construction, is durable, and isquite as comfortable for adultsas the bottom of a barb-ers chair, Itwill 'also is an ordinary seat on Figure 1 and full be apparent that ourimprovement increases the range of usefulness of a barbers chair andthis without the employmentof any eX-,

our novel seat tran'eous means whatsoever,

adapted in one considered as a unit being state to form anadult seatstate to form an elevatedohilds seat, comfortable-for the child andcalculated to enable the barber the child. 7 I t V r We have enteredinto a detailed descripto operate to advantage upon i 1' and in another51011 of Q lst-ruction rand relativefar- I rangement of the partsembraced in the present and-- preferred embodiment'of our in vention inorder to impart a full, clear and exact understanding of the saidembodiment. We do not desire, however, to be 3 understood as confiningourselves to t 'e pre auxiliary means being in the form of a U- cise'construction and arrangement of-parts shaped-support, pivotallyconnectedto said as disclosed, our invention being defined by sectionand movable in and" out of the'recess our appended claims Withintheiscope of thereoi; i i I Which-structural changes and changes in ar-2. The combination'in a seat for chairs, rangement may be madewithoutdep'arture of sections arranged in'alinem-ent and one from ourinvention. v section movable to and from a position Having described ourinvention, What e above the other section, side links pivotally" claimand desire to secure by Letters-Patent, connected adjacent to their endsto the said 1. A seat comprising two sections arpivoted inandcarri'ed'by the underside of ranged in one position end toend, and onethe movable section and nestable in said sectionshiftable from the saidposition to underside and also arranged when extended 7 and from anelevated position; a swingable "toebea r' upon the rear portion of theother lconnection between the-two sections, and section,

' said swingable connectionin the support of tures ii auxiliarycmeans onone section for: assisting 'In'testiinony' whereof We aflix our signa- Vv said section in its elevated position; the last-- r or I r j namedsection being provided with a J U-F' v REX HYDORN. fshaped recess initsunderside, and the said DAVID FORSYTH.

, sections, andan anxiliarybfoldable, support

